Rutgers Jazz Master’s Program Students:

David Sanders (The Blues Aesthetic and Its Impact on Modern Musicians)

Karen Lee Schwarz (Jazz at the Jersey Shore: Then and Now)

Other Scholars:

Mario Dunkel (Researcher and instructor, Technische Universitat Dortmund (Germany), Department of Music and Musicology - Political function of jazz historiography from the beginning of jazz criticism to the publication of Stearns’ The Story of Jazz)

Willard V. Jenkins (Independent researcher/consultant – book projects: Ain’t But a Few of Us -- dialogues with historic and contemporary African American jazz journalists & critics; and Spinning the Platters: A History of the Storied Life of Jazz Music on the Radio [working titles])

Christopher J. Wells (Graduate Instructor, Music and African/Afro-American Studies; Ph.D Candidate in Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Interactions between jazz music and popular dance throughout the 20th century)